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Becca Stareyes ([info]beccastareyes) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2005-10-27 23:17:00


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On Today's Wanker's Kingdom: the Self-Important Gamer Male
A very late continuation from here and here (the icon was inspired by this one). In summary, Green Ronin puts out Blue Rose. Nisarg hates the setting and says so. Repeatedly.

GR creates a system forum, and later announces the release of the setting-free version of the rules, True 20 (currently only available in PDF form). Nisarg eventually migrates over there, once the mods on the Blue Rose forum make it clear he is on the path to banniation on all GR forums.

So, time passes. Today Nisarg returns, with the following post.


Short Summary: The True20 forum now has a higher post count than the Blue Rose forum

Longer summary: Green Ronin owes me a copy of True20 Print once it comes out, and the Blue Rose Swine were wrong, and I was right, as usual.


Considering a good number of True20 regulars also post at the Blue Rose forum, this went over about as well as a xenon balloon.

Some Choice Quotes:

In which I assume that Nisarg is using some sophisticated counter-sarcasm, since no one could mistake that for non-sarcasm.
arkham618: *banging pots loudly* You are so smart! You are so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T! :-D

Nisarg:
Oh, I totally grant you, it doesn't take very much smarts to see the immense potential of True20. If not me, it could have been anyone else.

Anyone else, apparently, except the folks at Green Ronin and the swine at the Blue Rose forums.


Nisarg's clarification on swine.
Skywalker, let me clear it up: I did not mean to imply that everyone who posts or has ever posted to the Blue Rose fora are swine. I was referring to some specific people who had tried at every turn to reject the concept of True20 being a viable system outside of blue rose, and had a generally pompous attitude matched with a thickheaded admiration for the socio-fascism that aldis' pseudo-utopia would imply.

"It was all me!"
I'm glad Green Ronin eventually saw the light and are now doing good work moving forward with the True20 project.

But originally, and technically right up to one week before they released the True20 pdf their policy was that True20 was just for Blue Rose and was not even under consideration for independent release.

The True20 boards, also a great success, were not put up until I vociferously advocated the idea.

Green Ronin, in other words, was sitting on a gold mine and were too busy writing stories about magic deers to notice. I'm glad now they've seen the light, but a thank you would have been nice.



... There are so many jokes I could make about self-importance, but I think any of those might get ME banned from the forums here. So I post here.


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Oh Dear.
(Anonymous)
2005-10-28 05:54 am UTC (link)
I'm an RPG.net regular* and I recall some of the debates on this one. Recalled that there was one guy who wasn't keen on the whole "magic deer and enlightened sexuality" bit, forgot who it was, and didn't have any idea he'd taken it THIS far. Interesting.

*Evan Waters. No Journalfen account, at least not right now.

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]loki
2005-10-28 05:57 am UTC (link)
Right now you can get an account for free.

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]evanwaters
2005-10-28 06:06 am UTC (link)
Thank you kindly! (I knew they did this on occasion but I was clicking on the wrong links.)

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]loki
2005-10-28 06:08 am UTC (link)
No problem. Welcome to JF; boobies to your right, wankers to your left. Sometimes they even mingle.

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]ecchaniz0r
2005-10-28 06:39 am UTC (link)
Then you get BOOBIEWANK!

:D

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]ninja_stripper
2005-10-28 07:31 am UTC (link)
Did someone mention boobies? ^^

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]t_boy
2005-10-28 10:12 am UTC (link)
Wait, there are boobies?

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]sock_pupetteer
2005-10-28 12:26 pm UTC (link)
Fandom Wank! It brings all the boobies to the yard! :D

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]castellated
2005-10-28 06:56 pm UTC (link)
boobies to your right, wankers to your left.

Wouldn't that be a hermaphrodite?

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]kosaginolegion
2005-10-28 08:03 pm UTC (link)
Not unless they're lying on their side.

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]castellated
2005-10-28 09:34 pm UTC (link)
LOL!

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]das_mervin
2005-10-28 07:17 pm UTC (link)
Oh boy! Boobies! Do we get to have a contest? And can we call them hooters or mommy-bags if we want?

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]nicolediver
2005-10-28 06:10 am UTC (link)
Thank you!

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Re: Oh Dear.
(Anonymous)
2005-10-28 08:37 am UTC (link)
Wow they turn it off fast. I just saw this via pastede on my LJ flist :(

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]pyratejenni
2005-10-28 04:33 pm UTC (link)
Bookmark that system page. Click it every so often.

They're not really announcing when accounts are open anymore.

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]tangentialone
2005-10-28 09:49 am UTC (link)
...Did I miss it? I didn't see the [info]system post. :/ Not that I'm exactly in need of an account, but, you know.

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Re: Oh Dear.
(Anonymous)
2005-10-28 07:19 pm UTC (link)
aw gee, I ALWAYS miss the free ones. Everytime I spot it, I go and no need a code. *sniffles*

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Re: Oh Dear.
[info]beccastareyes
2005-10-28 06:00 am UTC (link)
From previous comments here, I kind of gathered Nisarg has a bit of a reputation. I can see why.

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sharonapple
2005-10-28 09:01 am UTC (link)
Now just what did the Magic Deer ever do to him?

Did Bambi eat destroy all his childhood hopes and dreams? Sheesh.

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[info]das_mervin
2005-10-28 07:08 pm UTC (link)
Well, Bambi did ruin the image of the hunter...

"Unshaven, stinky and boozed up on Rumpleman's, the hunters spray bullets into the woods!"

Perhaps he's a hunter, and he's angry at the deer for making him look bad...

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[info]zaliesiren
2005-10-29 12:56 am UTC (link)
That's a pretty accurate description for most of the hunters up here. It's almost deer season too. Bugger.

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[info]figgy
2005-10-28 02:06 pm UTC (link)
Someone needs to get laid.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2005-10-28 06:38 pm UTC (link)
Dude, is that your answer to everything?

(I don't have an issue with it at all. Just askin'. XD)

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[info]figgy
2005-10-28 06:39 pm UTC (link)
Usually. Especially when it's someone who needs to get off the internet.

(Myself included, keff. XD)

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[info]das_mervin
2005-10-28 07:06 pm UTC (link)
Hmph. I need to get laid, and no one ever says it to ME. Should I feel slighted?

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[info]figgy
2005-10-28 07:06 pm UTC (link)
I'll say it to you if you want?

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[info]das_mervin
2005-10-28 07:09 pm UTC (link)
Thank you--the gesture is so sweet. :)

Oh well. If I can't have sex, I'll have the next best thing--Diet Coke, chocolate, and a slasher film. *wanders off*

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[info]figgy
2005-10-28 07:10 pm UTC (link)
That's the spirit!

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2005-10-29 03:36 am UTC (link)
Well...I concede to that point. Thou winnest!

(Likewise. Le sigh and la argh. And even if the boyfiend lived in this town, I have a cold...sunnumabeetch. *sniffle* *snerk*)

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[info]figgy
2005-10-28 06:57 pm UTC (link)
That, and if this guy would stop playing with his dice bag... THANK YOU I'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK.

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2005-10-29 03:38 am UTC (link)
*dundunTSCH!!!*

That wins at life. XD

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Dammit dammit dammit!!!
(Anonymous)
2005-10-28 03:30 pm UTC (link)
I've been waiting for free accounts to open for months, too!

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Re: Dammit dammit dammit!!!
[info]souris
2005-10-28 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Then keep clicking the "Create Journal" link every now and then. This was already the second time account creation was open this month, so I shouldn't be surprised if it's opened again for a little while sometime soon.

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Re: Dammit dammit dammit!!!
(Anonymous)
2005-10-28 08:22 pm UTC (link)
Kthx I'll keep trying. I was sooooo excited when I saw that link tho. I was introduced to teh wank by a coworker who's also waiting to get in. She'd've been so stoked.

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[info]kadath
2005-10-28 04:00 pm UTC (link)
<gamer fight>

How does this relate to the fact that d20 sucks?

</gamer fight>

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2005-10-28 06:37 pm UTC (link)
*CHEERS!*

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[info]das_mervin
2005-10-28 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Oh....your icon....

*hugs all over you*

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[info]kadath
2005-10-28 08:06 pm UTC (link)
And it's even the truth!

(You're welcome to it, if you like badly-compressed JPGs.)

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[info]palefire
2005-10-29 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Ain't that the truth. *harrumph*

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[info]palabradot
2005-10-29 03:47 am UTC (link)
Ah, Nisarg. We miss you so much on RPGnet. NOT.
(goes back to rolling up that BlueRose character)

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[info]beccastareyes
2005-10-29 04:20 am UTC (link)
Now I'm curious and want to know what you are playing?

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